Meeting Recap for May 9, 2011

Posted by Diana Borroel 
on May 11, 2011
 

Invocation

Past President Beverly Brautigam gave the Thought for the Day. She reflected on what Rotary has done to help with disaster relief around the world, offering that as a good reason to invite a prospective new member to join our Club.

 

Recognition

President Scot announced that member Amy Dean passed away Saturday afternoon, May 7th.  There will be a celebration of her life at 3:00 pm on May 20th at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Sacramento. Also past member Philip Harry Moore died peacefully on April 25, 2011. He was a Paul Harris Fellow and his family said he lived his life by Rotary’s Four Way Test.

 

Don Meyer added to his Eddie Mulligan & Paul Harris in honor of Julius D. Micheletti and invited all to a memorial program at 2:30pm on May 20 at Juvenile Hall.

Judy Kjelstrom donated to her Eddie Mulligan in honor of her friend, Amy Dean. Amy was Judy’s sponsor into Rotary.

 

Sponsor of the Day

John Shelby from Five Star Bank was the Sponsor of the Day. He gave his time over to Kim Rhinehelder to tell us about the Nonprofit Resource Center. Jan Stohr started the Nonprofit Resource Center in the Sacramento region in 1989. The mission of the NRC is to enhance the resources and improve the management of nonprofit organizations, primarily within California’s northern Central Valley and Sierra Nevada regions. Kim gave examples of the successes they have had from Sister Libby Fernandez from Loaves and Fishes and Michele Steeb of St. John’s Shelter, with help to increase their budgets.

 

Announcements and Events

  • Bids for Kids on May 14, at the Discovery Museum **NOT** the Hyatt – seats still need filling and auction items are online! RSVP today. Go on line at www.bidsforkidsauction.com and bid for your favorite items.
  • Yosemite trip with Jim Phillips on May 20th.
  • Happy Hour at Crawdad’s River Cantina on May 24. Sign up on line.
  • Loaves & Fishes on May 31. Contact John Swentowsky to volunteer
  • Wine Dinner at Matteo’s on June 5th.

 

Speaker

Bill Tobin, President of the Rotary Club of El Dorado Hills was our speaker. Bill is a representative for ShelterBox USA. He brought a ShelterBox and set up the 10 person tent and displayed all the provisions that are included. ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity specializing in emergency shelter and provisions. Each box is packed “with a purpose”, tailored to each region where they are distributed. The box contains a large tent, a stove, water containers and purification, cooking utensils, blankets, and if needed, warm gloves, hats, children’s activity supplies, and mosquito nets. The boxes go directly to the disaster victims: not to government agencies. Often the ShelterBox tent provides more than just shelter – they provide privacy, dignity and respect to the victims also. A team of Rotary volunteers accompany the boxes to help with distribution and set up. Each box cost $1000 to assemble and are stored in warehouses around the world in order to get to sites where needed more quickly.

 

ShelterBox was founded in 2000 by UK Rotarian Tom Henderson and was adopted as his Club’s Millennium project. ShelterBox is now a global Rotary club project with over 5000 clubs participating. ShelterBox has provided disaster relief in Lebanon, Pakistan, Haiti (where 100,000 are still in use), Guatemala, Bolivia, North Korea and very recently in Japan.

For more information or to make a donation the website is www.shelterboxusa.org.

 

Conclusion

President Scot ended the meeting at 1:30pm with encouragement to each of us to be good Rotarians and to support Bids for Kids.

 

Next Meeting

Our next meeting is on Monday, May 23rd and the guest speaker is Linda Katehi, Chancellor of UC Davis.